Some of Colorado’s finest voices will sing until the cows come home, or run for cover, in a free opera exhibition today at the National Western Stock Show. Opera Colorado will send a troupe of singers in boots and bluejeans to the Ames Activity Tent from 4 to 5 p.m.
The opera’s community singing group, many in training for future stage careers, will feature selections from the opera “Don Pasquale,” which opens Feb. 8. They also will perform popular songs from “Oklahoma!” and other Western favorites. Opera boosters call it a definitively family-friendly program.
“Don Pasquale” is a typical stage story about two lovers separated by misfortune and misunderstanding, but the Opera Colorado production has restaged it to take place in the American West of the 1800s. Performances of “Don Pasquale” will run through Feb. 17 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
